A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.